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ANNOUNCEMENT : Symposium on Reading Early Women Writers: Research and Pedagogy Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, CA on May 1, 1998. Please note that registration is accepted by email. >For information, please contact the organizers: Elizabeth Sauer (Brock >University) [log in to unmask] or Helen Ostovich (McMaster >University) [log in to unmask] >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Symposium on Reading Early Modern Women Writers: Research and Pedagogy Brock University, May 1, 1998 > This Symposium provides a forum for discussions about reading, researching, and teaching women writers of early modern England, and features presentations by Professor Susanne Woods on the Brown University Women Writers Project and Professor Susan Brown on the Orlando Project. > > SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM > >> 9-9:30 am: Registration and morning coffee > >> 9:30-10:30 am: Plenary speaker: Susanne Woods >> (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA) > >> 10:30-11 am: Susan Brown (University of Guelph) > >> 11 am: Coffee > >> 11:15-12:15 am: Panel 1 on reading early women: > >1) Christina Luckyj (Dalhousie University): > "'A Woman of Few Words is a Gift of God': Early Modern Women on Silence" > >2) Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo) >"Aristocratic Continuity and Poetic Identity" > >> 12:30 pm: Lunch, Brock University Faculty Club > >> 2-3:15 pm: Panel 2 on reading early women: > >1) Sara Mendelson (McMaster University) >"Lessons from History: Narratives of Female Culture" > >2) Lynne Magnusson (University of Waterloo) >"A Rhetoric of Requests: Suitor's Letters by Elizabethan Women" > >3) Heather Campbell (York University) >"Domesticating the Text: Towards a Teaching Anthology of >Seventeenth-century Women's Writings" > >> 3:15 pm: Coffee > >> 3:30-5 pm: Roundtable inquiry into teaching early modern women, >> followed by an investigation of a pedagogical packet of support >> materials for teaching early modern women (5-5:30 pm) > >> 6:30 pm: Dinner at Port Mansion, Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines > >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > The Symposium is co-organized by Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University) and Helen Ostovich (McMaster University), with the assistance of Isabel White (McMaster University) and Jane Farnsworth (Brock University), and is sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities, Brock University. For more information, contact Elizabeth Sauer at [log in to unmask] or phone: 905 688-5550 x3887 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Registration >> >> >> name ____________________ address __________________________________ >> city _________________________________ postal code_____________________ >> phone _____________ fax _____________ email _________________________ >> >> I will be attending the Symposium on May 1, 1998. ___ Yes ___ No >> >> A catered lunch will be provided in the Brock University Faculty Club. >> I will be attending the lunch. ___ Yes ___ No >> >> No registration fee will be charged; however, a $15 fee is required >> to cover the cost of the lunch and photocopies for the roundtable >> discussions. If you are not attending the lunch, please bring $5.00 to pay for photocopying costs. >> >> The dinner will take place at the Port Mansion, Port Dalhousie, St. >> Catharines at 6:30 pm on May 1st. Cost: $20-25 per person. > >> I plan to attend the dinner. ___ Yes ___ No > >Inexpensive accommodations are available on campus at Brock University. >Please contact Elizabeth Sauer for information. > Please make your $15 cheque payable to Brock University and either bring it with you on May 1, or send it now, along with this form, to: >> >> Elizabeth Sauer >> Department of English >> Brock University >> St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1 >> >> Registration forms are due NOW or by April 20, 1998. We have a limited number of places. >> Forms may also be faxed (905 688-5550 4492). If you wish to register by >> email, you may do so by sending a message to [log in to unmask] >> or [log in to unmask] >>